Considered to be the best encyclopaedia ever written, the 1911 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica had entries several times the length of normal encylopaedia entries, many of which were written by famous scholars of the time.

It is now online.

"Data are not information. Information is data endowed with relevance and purpose. Knowledge is information endowed with application. Wisdom is knowledge endowed with age and experience."

-- Ken Davenport, Northeast Iowa Regional Library System, in a letter printed in the May 1, 2002, Library Journal (v. 127, no. 8, p. 10)